Events such as plant creation, closure, and relocation have a considerable effect on employment. This paper looks specifically at plant transfers from urban to periurban or rural areas. First we propose an analytic framework derived from New Economic Geography models. The paper then presents a...

Using a plant level data-set of 810 000 units, observed each year of 1993 to 2001, we test the assumption of space differentiation of industrial plants demography (creations, suppressions, transfers) between urban, periurban or rural areas. The demography of establishments first appears as a...

Si le nombre total d'entreprises françaises évolue peu, le tissu productif est marqué par un renouvellement continu : plus d'une entreprise sur dix disparaît tous les ans et une sur dix apparaît, sans qu'il y ait systématiquement correspondance de lieu et d'activité entre ces...

This paper analyses the spatial heterogeneity of labour demand. Our main assumption is that for each location there is a combination of factors which is the most efficient, given the endowment of the location in terms of technology access and the relative cost of factors. We estimate our model...